Howard wrote:
>What is ``so much better'' about lsppp, besides it taking up rought 1/3 of
>the ram of epppd? In my case, I have plenty of upper memory blocks to load
>epppd in so that is not an issue, and the eppd chat dialer combination works
>for more connections in more ways than any other driver-dialer combination
>I have tried (including dialpc).
I meassure it in this way:
1. It works as a PPP packet driver (a PPP packet emulator actually). Both
have this.
2. It has support for PAP/CHAP and VJ compression. Both have this.
3. Uses little memory. LSPPP does this, EPPPD doesn't.
4. Works as a dialer. LSPPP works for some, EPPPD doesn't have this ability.
>I get the feeling, not being a real programmer, that an initial program
>loads either in conventional or upper memory. After that it uses either
>conventional memory or XMS memory for buffering and processing temporary
>data. Therefore, if you can get a TSR in upper memory, I conjecture that
>it no longer deprives subsequent programs of the memory they need to do
>their thing, yes?
Oooh, I guess this can take on forever...
In short a program loads in conventional or high memory, stores whatever it
needs for it's TSR part in the same area (or tries to use high
automatically - Cute Mouse does that for instance). I don't think using
dynamically ammount of RAM is a wise choice for TSRs (some other program
might demand all of it resulting in weird problems). However using XMS
would make thme much smaller if many/large buffers are required. This was a
change I was planning to try for EPPPD 0.7 before releasing it (planned for
the 0.7 beta version actually).
And there's no use in trying to get me to restart on epppd 0.7 again. I
really don't have the time since I'll start work this week (at Ericsson
InfoTech and at the University of Karlstad). Nor do I have any useful
source left for 0.7 :(
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